#33: Lunch

These series of posts cannot help but be centered around my convention-inspired life the last few days. Today, I had the chance to catch up over lunch (at a speakeasy!) with an old friend and my co-presenter for two presentations at the conference. It was precious to me to have the opportunity to reconnect face to face over a meal. We've kept a teaching blog for the last three years reflecting on our classroom practices and we've been friends since we first enrolled in graduate school and discovered like-mindedness in many regards, including both having served in the Peace Corps. Taking time to discover what was going on in our lives, our teaching, and our professional paths was invaluable. It was a chance to rediscover and rekindle friendship, and this is nothing at all to be taken for granted. I cannot wait to follow the career of my friend and continue having lunches over the years (if only those conferences weren't so far apart!).